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Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:50PM (#41523544)
Yeah, I think this is the goal - remember; there are some problems that only need to be solved correctly once! Imagine something like a millennium problem - you'd be willing to wait a pretty long time for a proof of the RH!
I've been doing some reading on LLMs for protein/RNA structure prediction and I think there's a decent amount of work on SO3 invariant transformer architectures now
ex-Loon engineer reporting in. Can confirm, I'm having a good chuckle.
When new players learn Go, they're told to "lose their first fifty games as fast as possible."
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:35PM (#34223285)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, Rust, Python, Java, Scala, Lua, PostGIS, SQL, all the standard geospatial data science stuff

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Zsa5C7fQKJmj7YgUJlRa4b_V_9...

Email: [email protected]

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Mid-career jack-of-all trades problem solver with a decade of software engineering, data science, and analytics experience. Very experienced working with large geospatial datasets, planning, simulation, and control policy work. Looking for roles involving physical science, chemistry, energy, or other fun science and engineering problems.

Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:53PM (#32870491)
I bet the folks at Skydio would want to talk to you.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:52PM (#32870466)
this reminds me a bit of Cockatrice - hope your version ends up cooler though!
Re:Sony completes $3.6B deal to buy Bungie on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:53PM (#32130554)
I can't believe anyone else remembers this game but my best friend in elementary school and I used to spend our entire sleepovers playing Oni. What a legend.
Re:A Particularly Sadistic MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:32AM (#29975495)
Good note; thanks! If a mod wants to change the link to that one, it'd be great.

Ask HN: Would you show up to an adult math circle?

Traditionally, math circles are a group activity where a bunch of young students get together to discuss mathematics that they might not have otherwise seen in school.I'm a mid-career software engineer who was an undergraduate math major a decade ago, and recently realized that I was missing the thrill of learning new math in my life.I'm curious about starting a math circle for adults in SF -...

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Re:Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf] on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:44AM (#27217849)
Looking at the datasheet, it looks like there's one qubit with quite a bit worse error/noise than the others - anyone know why this might be?
Re:Implementing Parallel Copy_If in C++ on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:58PM (#26254912)
Somewhat relatedly, this reminds me of the instruction I learned about recently: the PEXT instruction.

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen...

Re:Ramanujan's Easiest Formula on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:06PM (#25139282)
This is the best comment I've ever seen describing the actual practice of mathematics.
Re:Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:29PM (#24273751)
(as a historical aside, the name is "Quipper" because I kept trying to pronounce the project name (ChromeOS-Wide Profiling, or CWP) and ended up quite liking "Quip".

The internal aggregation code, of course, is known as Bartlett.

Re:Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:23PM (#24273691)
Fun fact, I wrote the first version of this code as a Google Intern. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they're still using it, and it's been developed and fleshed out!
This is an interesting look at how transit is shifting around public Micromobility options like scooters and bike share. Notably, commute hours seem to be drifting away from bimodal morning-evening. A neat take!
Re:More Descent, Less Gradient on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:28PM (#23023843)
I think Bayesian Optimization is what you're looking for here. There's an internal tool at google ("Vizier") for which a white paper has been published that solves this exact problem. I don't know if there are any public implementations of Vizier but you could probably reverse engineer some of it from the white paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020) on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:17PM (#21939928)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes, flexible.

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C, C++, Python, Scala, Mathematica, Matlab

Resume: Contact me directly

Email: [email protected]

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Interested in research grade problems. MIT-trained computational geometer. Current interests include earth science prediction problems, robotics, and geometric optimization.

Most recently worked at Google X as balloon systems simulation engineer. Contact me for some wild stories about airspace ;)

Re:Lubuntu is taking a new direction on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:59PM (#17668957)
I saw an article on here a few days ago that suggested you could detect isotopes present in "more recent" forgeries that came about as the result of the nuclear testing age that would not be present on the originals.
Re:How did Google get so big? on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:44PM (#17630437)
He's also the chief contributor to the S2 Geometry Library.
Re:Shell Style Guide on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:33PM (#17075214)
I'm on a google machine now and it's a symlink to /bin/bash.
Re:A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:39PM (#16894149)
That video is 100% filmed on the multi-use path outside google :D
Re:Machine Learning Crash Course on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:39PM (#16494203)
As someone who just did this internally:

Do it. It's worth your time. Very well paced exercises, and it walks you through the flow quite nicely.

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